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1522: Mathematician and cartographer Oronce Finé uses judicial astrology to predict the birth of Herman Hollerith.
1860: Inventor Herman Hollerith born. He will later be recognized as a pioneer of data processing.
1964: Hellscreiber teleprinter system used to publish new biography of Herman Hollerith.

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 File:Herman_Hollerith.jpg|link=Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|1860: Inventor [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]] born. He will later be recognized as a pioneer of data processing.
-||1928: Seymour Papert born ... mathematician and computer scientist, co-created the Logo programming language.
+||1928: Seymour Papert born ... mathematician, computer scientist, and educator, who spent most of his career teaching and researching at MIT. He was one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence, and of the constructionist movement in education. He was a co-inventor of the Logo programming language. Pic.
-||1932: Gene H. Golub born ... mathematician and academic ... one of the preeminent numerical analysts of his generation.
+||1932: Gene H. Golub born ... mathematician and academic ... one of the preeminent numerical analysts of his generation. Pic.
 ||1932: Giuseppe Vitali dies ... mathematician who worked in several branches of mathematical analysis. He gives his name to several entities in mathematics, most notably the Vitali set with which he was the first to give an example of a non-measurable subset of real numbers. Pic.